And Vern is the new Hunter Thompson

via Low IQ Canadian comes a list of what is the new what:

Sleep is the new sex.
Lovely is the new loud.
Orange is the new black.
Black is the new black.
Fake is the new real.
E-mail is the new database.
70 is the new 50.
Sacramento is the new New York.
Hip-hop is the new jazz.
Purple is the new red.
Red is the new green.
Science is the new religion.
Small is the new big.
The location field is the new command line.
Awake is the new sleep.
Desperate Housewives is the new Sex in the City.
Storage is the new chips.
Cast is the new star.
Gay marriage is the new abortion.
Twelve is the new zero -- UK Telegraph, filed months after I adopted that as my RT blurb for Oceans 12!
Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine
Music is the new black
Obesity is the new tobacco
Fat is the new thin
Java is the new COBOL
Consumption is the new crack
Referrer spam is the new Amway
Analog is the new digital
Ohio is the new Florida
Butt crack is the new cleavage (thanks for telling us, Salon)
Hate is the new love
Clarendon is the new Helvetica
Knitting is the new rock n' roll
The MFA is the new MBA
The American cubicle is the new textile mill
Things that are the new black
MacMini is the new Altair
Boring is the new Charisma
Story is the new movie star
Organic is the new kosher
Iron is the new platinum
Large is the new medium
Islam is the new communism
October is the new June
the Mobile Cap is the new tinfoil hat
The prequel is the new sequel
and
Glam is the new metal.

and, apparently, pith is the new insight.